New Ideas
stuff that hasn't been done before

Bridge Commander, X-wing's unborn child!
"I dunno bout you, but I think the move from starfighter to starship combat is going to leave a lot of the X-wing fans in the dark. I think I'll be able to accomodate well enough, but I know many just won't be able to."

Space sci-fi sims vs space sci-fi movies
"It is my belief that Space sci-fi sims (Jump Gate, Allegiance, ID War, Freespace, X-wing games) do not follow space sci-fi movies very well in one very important aspect: the way ships MOVE!!!"

Team Fortress - Voice chat of the future?
"with voice chat becoming popular, game companies need to figure out a way to let us alter our voices to the extent they let us alter our appearances in the game. Software needs to be developed that will allow us to filter and modify our voice into something else on the fly, in real-time. "

Team Fortress 2 - server options for grenades
"For me, grenades too often resolve combat between two players. If i'm a medic, and i find another enemy medic, the combat rarely ends when the other has pumped a shotgun blast into the other. Instead, teh guy who first primed their grenade and times it just right.. is the victor."

Good Ideas
old stuff that needs to be done more

Counter-Strike - Teammate Locator (Radar)
"Counter-strike has a really cool feature that many MODs and games should follow: the radar. This radar orb in the corner only shows allies, telling you what directions your teammates are in."

Doom - Corpse Remain Time
"You simply haven't truly played computer games until you've played the co-op Doom 2 map i'm talknig about... where you really could not see the floor because there were so many corpses piled around. 10 football fields worth of dead corpses, and the frame rate was still immensely high."

Wing Commander: Armada - Multiplayer Strategy Mode and Voice "Chat"
"If only this feature was revived! It would be simply amazing. With today's technology, no more lame 2 v 2 combat. The 50 on 50 space combat would be possible! Xwing Alliance has already done that, IL-2 will do that, EAW has done it... But ALL of those games base themselves on single missions. There's no fleets that you get to move around, resources to harvest. It's not nearly as deep and involving."

Bad Ideas
old stuff that shouldn't be done again

Flight Sims and their Gimmicks
"When I remove the amazing graphics and sound of WW2 Fighters, I actually feel like i have a game far less advanced than that of the old 1942: Pacific Air War."

Heavy Armor in Tribes 2 = Boredom-induced Suicide
"Does a full flesh and blood human being, with 12 years of public education, and possibly more, and a creature a part of the most intelligent known species in the universe, need to be fulfilling this role? Is it really so difficult that only a human can do this, and not an AI ?"

Red Faction - Mundane Multiplayer
"for some reason, i assumed RF multiplayer would match something we often see in Freespace 2-like games (ie flight sims, x-wing games, etc)." What happened, Volition?

Online Sims need more AI participation
"My entire reason for playing AW3 was to capture territory, which eventually killed me of boredom.. as i, or some other poor deprived soul, was shoved into a bomber piloting role.. a horribly boring job that no human should be punished with fulfilling."